THE BROKEN TELEPHONE GAME!!!

scream

scared

monsters

green

orange

apple

pit

snake

hiss

tire

yawn

walk

cane

candy

chocolate

drugs

Drugs

Pharmacist

Sunblock

Sunburn

Tired

Red

Beach

Clinic

Wednesday

Friday

Shabbat

If you’re on antibiotics

And the pharmacist tells you to drink lots of water and put on sunblock if you go outside because you’re going to burn more easily

And you were only out for like 10-15min with a big floppy hat so you didn’t put on sunblock

You get sunburned

Your face is red

You’re dehydrated and tired

Which totally makes you think twice about going to the beach during the day

Which is located next to the animal clinic

And you don’t know when to go to the clinic because the beach one is only open on Friday and the weekend and maybe you can go Wednesday to the other one

And then you think that you do want to go to the beach one so maybe you can go later when it is less hot on Friday

But that’s yatzar hara talking and even early Friday is already pushing it close to Shabbat.

[Miraculous update: Remember that clinic by the beach that is only open Friday, Saturday, & Sunday?

Turns out that for the first time in their few years of being open, this week they announced that they are now open Thursday to Monday.

I just found this out 10 minutes ago.

Baruch Hashem.

Just an example of how Hashem helps you fight your battles for good.

Thank you world!

Thank you Hashem.]

Moshiach

now

chocolate

the best thing in the world besides Moshiach

Moshiach

Stop Loshon Hara

professor

school

annoying

little sisters

babies

cute

ducklings

fitness

running

stranger

danger

fire

heat

Chavrusa

Smoking

Choking

Chili

Lettuce

Water

Bracha

Taste

Mazal Tov

It’s a Boy

It’s a girl

Pink

Flowers

worms

kids playing in dirt

my niece

yummy

chocolate

shehakol

bracha

fruit

juicy

sweater

warm

hot cocoa

coffee

“Bar

Jerusalem

Birthday

Trees”

What? How does bracha go to bar, and bar go to Jerusalem, and Jerusalem to birthday, and birthday to trees?

Friend Bracha who goes by Bar

She was from Jerusalem

Saw her on my bday

Tree birthday

Glad? Of course 🙂

Yes her nickname was Bar

…I thought that this was a thing like a train of thought where one word ties into the other.

My mind is going in that direction. Bar. Jerusalem. I was in Jerusalem on my bday. Bday of the trees.

I associated Jerusalem with my birthday

Birthday with the Jewish New Year for the Trees which reminds me of a tree birthday because we’re all like trees

…. Telephone happens in our heads. My head goes as such.

If you wanted me to think of what I think you or others would think of next, then that would be several thoughts down the line using logic and not free association.

winter

tub’shvat

freezer opens

shidduchim

chasuna

How does Tu B’Shvat go with Freezer opens? Maybe that would relate to winter but that doesn’t technically relate to Tu B’Shvat.

Then there is an even more personalized one with…

Freezer opens and then shidduchim?

Kay thanks Meno —Point made: LU’s response was based on her association from one word to the next.

The OP “not a mod”‘s directions:

“For those who don’t know how this game works, you post the first thing that comes to mind when you see the previous word (or phrase).”

That’s what I did. I’m in defense-mode because no one can tell me what I was thinking and what my next thought should have been.

I was honest. Said what came to mind. The first thing.

Played by the rules. Honestly I don’t have to explain why one thought led to the other.

However, I did so as a courtesy.

In the past, I’ve been told IRL that what I said was “random.” Yet when after I explained the train of thought, then the person sees that there is a connection.

Nothing is random.

So maybe this telephone game can be a lesson in emuna that everything is coordinated by Hashem.

Yepp yepp thank you

LB – that wasn’t what I said. I didn’t say that you can’t have your own associations. All I said was that the associations are supposed to be with the word right beforehand.

You originally wrote that the associations were all based on the original word as opposed to the word immediately preceding.

This is what you originally wrote:

“SHE was from Jerusalem

Saw HER on my bday”

So the words were NOT associated with the word right before. They were all associated with the original word. The point of broken telephone is supposed to be that each word is associated with the word before and not with the original word. Otherwise, there is no point to the game.

Afterwards, you wrote that you associated Jerusalem with your birthday, but that was not what you had originally written, or at least not what it sounded like to me.

It’s really not important. I’m just writing this because I wanted you to understand what I meant. You seem to think I was attacking your associations, and I wanted you to realize that I’m not. Obviously you can have your own associations – I was not trying to imply that you can’t. Hope that’s clear now. 🙂

I’m not really in the CR anymore – just came back to clear that up.

heavy

weightlifting

muscles

strong

whiskey

drunk

Love

Candy

Cane

Gerbil

Squirrel

Paper mache

arts and crafts

my elementary school

good memories

bad memories

high school

All is good LU. I learned and appreciate you pointing out the abstraction and how it didn’t make sense to you.

crinkles

crackles

Snap, Crackle, Pop

Rice Crispies

Milk

Cookies

clean

shiny

gold

necklace

jewelry